Hacker News: eMPee584

New comment by eMPee584 in "A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use"

eMPee584 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:39:25 +0000

f.e.?

New comment by eMPee584 in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

eMPee584 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:37:05 +0000

There's a new initiative by some non-google non-apple phone vendors called *UnifiedAttestation* which I hope you will support at some point in the future:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-conso...

New comment by eMPee584 in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"

eMPee584 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:03:36 +0000

And that konqueror, KDE's web browser, added in 1999 (and still supports). Also, it's still a great browser, albeit still missing webext support.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"

eMPee584 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:00:19 +0000

Konqueror (KDE's original hybrid web browser/file manager) had it first, implemented in 1999 ( https://invent.kde.org/search?group_id=1551&project_id=2544&... ) and it supports arbitrary tiling. Oh by the way, Chrome's rendering engine (called blink nowadays, KHTML once) also originated from KDE.

Implementation details and UX in general is a cluster fsck of sad stories though, can confirm. Try/adapt zen browser maybe?

New comment by eMPee584 in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

eMPee584 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:21:50 +0000

"The profession" actually is a wide variety of trades, not just architects and contractors. Electricians, plumbers etc. where CAD is not yet widely spread. Which hopefully will change in the near future, with open source BIM tool chains, boosted by generative/agentic AI.. Finally, a huge source of confusion and execution hiccups will be overcome.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

eMPee584 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:43:08 +0000

local backups is responsible

New comment by eMPee584 in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

eMPee584 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:41:10 +0000

As usual, root and sshfs make this all a lot more bearable. Alas, no online-banking or digital health insurance services, lol.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

eMPee584 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:39:27 +0000

The server, and plausibly at least one secret service. Telegram datacenters are located in Florida, Amsterdam and Singapure.. guess local jurisdiction applies.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

eMPee584 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:23:26 +0000

Because of all the laggy javascript, wasting precious compute and gigawatts of power just to make buttons dance, track us and shove ads up ours?

Websites used to be below 100KiB - now they come with MEGABYTES of obfuscated JS.. wtf

Though obviously, it's not the individual developer to blame but the incentive system.

New comment by eMPee584 in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

eMPee584 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:05:28 +0000

PostmarketOS is a complete degoogled mobile ecosystem, actually. How about we commit resources into that?

New comment by eMPee584 in "VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]"

eMPee584 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:57:38 +0000

With a bit of reading between the letters it seems obvious that for us anthropocentrics, humans are the implicit baseline measure for intelligence.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: Tortuise – Gaussian splatting in your terminal, no GPU required"

eMPee584 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:22:46 +0000

Gone already?

New comment by eMPee584 in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

eMPee584 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:34:16 +0000

"I've only had alien mushrooms show up once" gonna be my reassuring quote of the day, thanks : )

New comment by eMPee584 in "YouTube as Storage"

eMPee584 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:07:54 +0000

But to whom, I have no followers and a blog update has been on my TODO list for two decades..

New comment by eMPee584 in "YouTube as Storage"

eMPee584 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:13:41 +0000

Well the time filters (before/after:date) still seem to work, but for controversial / hot topics, somehow, more recent videos tend to still show up at the top. Try "scandal after:2010 before:2012"..

New comment by eMPee584 in "YouTube as Storage"

eMPee584 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:58:08 +0000

I've stumbled upon very valuable content with very low view numbers - the algorithms spiral around spectacularity and provocation, not quality or insight.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal"

eMPee584 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:15:05 +0000

> can’t help with anything involving harming an animal or figuring out how to destroy a body.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

eMPee584 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:18:40 +0000

.. examples?

New comment by eMPee584 in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

eMPee584 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:03:33 +0000

Even if well intended, isn't that a matter of reach? whom of the aforementioned vulnerable individuals will ever cross the HN comments section? How many of the HN regulars will not already be weary of any and all LLM outputs?

New comment by eMPee584 in "Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser"

eMPee584 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:42:11 +0000

Unexpected side quests are so much more enticing when equipped with the skill set to dig deep – but also, much more time-consuming.. Thanks for sharing! : )